It’s never fair to pin an entire game on the kicker’s shoulders because, as most football coaches will tell you: dozens of plays led to the moment in which a kicker was called upon to make a game-winning field goal.

Still, San Diego State (3-4 overall, 2-1 Mountain West) could have beaten Fresno State in regulation if sophomore placekicker Seamus McMorrow had made either one of the two failed field goals he attempted Saturday night.

McMorrow missed a 40-yarder in the first quarter, which prompted the question: Why did the Aztecs send him out again late in the fourth for a second field goal attempt with the game tied at 28-28?

More than 40 seconds remained on the clock after Adam Muema’s crucial fourth down conversion that gave SDSU first and 10 at Fresno State’s 24.

Wouldn’t it have made more sense to go for a touchdown?

“Seamus had made four extra points, and it would have been a short field goal,” said Aztecs coach Rocky Long. “And a few minutes before that, he’d made that onside kick. I figured he was hot.”

But McMorrow’s 37-yard attempt was blocked, and the Bulldogs’ ensuing overtime win reemphasized the fact that the Aztecs’ kicking issues have now cost them a game.

Collectively, McMorrow and senior Wes Feer are now 16-of-19 on PATs and 8-of-13 on field goals.

They’ve missed five in a row, and haven’t nailed a successful field goal since Feer converted a 25-yard attempt on Sept. 28 against New Mexico State.

Still, there doesn’t seem to be much SDSU can do about the iffy kicking situation.

“We’ll have Seamus and Wes compete in practice again this week,” Long said. “We’ll keep working with them and hope they get better.”

McMorrow, a St. Augustine product, is the lone Aztecs kicker on scholarship.

The only other kicker on the roster is freshman walk-on John McGrory, a Rancho Santa Margarita alum with a soccer background, who set a CIF Southern Section record in high school by making 106 consecutive PATs.

He’s listed on the Aztecs’ roster as a punter and Long nixed the idea of seeing what he can do in a game.

“We had him out there this fall, and right now, he’s not as good as the other two,” Long said.

The Aztecs will be in the market for a scholarship kicker in the 2014 recruiting class though, and Long also seemed receptive to the idea of approaching the SDSU men’s soccer team after the season to see if anyone might want to kick for the football team.

SDSU’s 2012 kicker, Chance Marden, played soccer for the Aztecs before he joined the football team for his senior year.

He had a rough start last season, missing three-consecutive field goal attempts to begin the year. But thereafter, he converted eight in a row, and finished 10-of-14 overall.

Who will kick for SDSU against New Mexico (2-5, 0-3) this Saturday? That’s anyone’s guess.